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Mar 31, 2025

Pharma hub workforce training wins $3.9 million grant

The talent pipeline for the Richmond-Petersburg region’s growing advanced pharmaceutical manufacturing and biotech industries is getting a boost from a $3.9 million federal grant. Announced in mid-January, the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s Good Jobs Challenge grant was awarded to the Community College Workforce Alliance in Disputanta, a shared division of Brightpoint and [...]

Virginia officials and AMPAC Fine Chemicals executives held a shovel ceremony May 4 in Petersburg to celebrate an expansion of AFC’s site. Photo courtesy SK Global Development Group
Jul 17, 2024

Reports: Novo Nordisk in talks to buy Petersburg Ampac plant

Two South Korean media outlets have reported that the South Korean owner of Ampac Fine Chemicals may sell its manufacturing plant in Petersburg to Novo Nordisk, the Danish global pharmaceutical company. Sources told The Korea Economic Daily that the Seoul-based manufacturing conglomerate SK Group, which purchased Ampac in 2018 for a reported $576 million, is […]

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